Chatham Financial names Sam Graziano as managing director
Graziano joins from enterprise SaaS company Amount, where he was CCO for just over a year.
Risk Management
Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Albania live with new treasury management system from Profile Software
Acumen.plus is deployed at Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Albania on a SaaS basis.
Bonifii’s new identity credential completes pilot with Lone Star Credit Union
The product is now expected to be offered to more credit unions and banks in the US.
Digital ID firm Signicat names Michel van den Bogaard as CFO
Based in Signicat’s Rotterdam office, van der Bogaard will lead a team of more than 35 people.
Enterprise fintech Treasury4 closes Series A at $20m
The money will be spent on the development of Treasury4’s Entity4 and Cash4 solutions and also partnerships.
Risk management platform Certa’s twice-oversubscribed Series B raises $35m
The round was led by Fin Capital and Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India.
ICYMI fintech funding round-up: GenTwo, Momnt, myZoi, Treyd, Firstcard & more
A handy round-up of the recent funding endeavours of fintech companies across the globe.
Urban Angehrn steps down as CEO of FINMA
Current deputy CEO Birgit Rutishauser will assume the position of interim CEO from 1 October.
Geely Group buys out Saxo Bank stake in joint fintech venture
Saxo Fintech was launched in 2019 to bring Saxo’s tech solutions to FIs in Mainland China.
Monzo announces new feature to help protect customers against impersonation scams
UK consumers lost a total of £177.6 million to impersonation scams last year.
Israel’s ThetaRay secures $57m to accelerate global expansion
With the fresh investment, ThetaRay plans on expediting its international expansion “across continents”.
Swift can facilitate tokenised asset transfers between different blockchains, new experiments confirm
The experiments were in collaboration with several major financial institutions, including Clearstream, ANZ and Citi.
Delta Capita names Alan Philpot as new CPO
The appointment follows the launch of the company’s distributed ledger services venture in April.
How the UK is making the fight against financial crime more connected than ever
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill could revolutionise how the UK fights financial crime.
Heather Gantt-Evans joins Marqeta as chief information security officer
US Army Reserves veteran Gantt-Evans will lead the firm’s global corporate and product security strategies.
Payments giant Mastercard to end crypto card partnership with Binance
As of 22 September, Mastercard will be ending its four pilot co-branded Binance card programmes.
Metro Bank founder launches acceleration partner Archie for early-stage fintechs
Archie is led by serial fintech entrepreneur Anthony Thomson and Steve Brennen, a former PayPal director.
Yahoo Finance builds out investor insights with Commonstock acquisition
Launched in 2020, Commonstock is backed by investors including Coatue, QED and Floodgate.
Morgan Stanley hit with £5.41m fine after energy traders used WhatsApp to discuss market transactions
It is the first-ever electronic communication fine issued in Great Britain relating to trading energy products.
FinTech Founders Video: Anandhi Dhukaram, Esdha
Dr Anandhi Vivek Dhukaram PhD drops the advice she would give herself if she could go back to when she founded Esdha.
Standard Chartered global head leaves to found fintech start-up
Manohar Chadalavada is leaving the bank to be the co-founder of a fintech start-up currently in stealth.
FullCircl reinforces compliance suite with W2 Global Data Solutions acquisition
Under the terms of the deal, W2 will now trade as ‘W2 by FullCircl’.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 18 August 2023
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Webinar | 5 October 2023: Four must-haves for data governance in financial services
Evaluating painkillers and vitamins that drive data governance, and more, in this free webinar.
UK fintech Paytrix appoints Joe Redmond as CEO of Ireland operations
Paytrix describes Redmond as a “heavyweight of Ireland’s financial services sector”.
ANZ invests in mule account detection solution to help fight fraud
ANZ says it conducted a successful pilot in April, identifying nearly 1,400 high-risk accounts.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 11 August 2023
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
ConnexPay appoints former PayPal exec George Hansen as chief revenue officer
Hansen joins ConnexPay from PayPal, where he served as head of global sales and account management.
FCA warns consumers against loan fee fraudsters amid rising summer borrowing
The average loss to loan fee fraud in the UK is £260.
Singapore’s Endowus raises $35m as it eyes regional expansion
The round saw participation from existing investors including UBS Next, EDBI and Prosus Ventures.
TransferGo hit with €310,000 fine from Bank of Lithuania for AML failings
UAB TransferGo Lithuania has already submitted a plan to the central bank to remedy the deficiencies.
MarketAxess acquires Pragma to leverage quantitative trading technology
MarketAxess aims to accelerate the development of quantitative execution algorithms for fixed-income products.
US insurtech start-up Lula raises $35.5m Series B funding
The insurtech previously raised $18 million in its Series A funding round of July 2021.
Automotive lending platform GoFi taps Provenir for credit risk decisioning
The Texas-headquartered company has implemented Provenir’s Data and Decisioning Platform.
DFSA slaps $3m fine on Mirabaud for AML failings
Between June 2018 and October 2021, DFSA says it found weaknesses in Mirabaud’s AML systems and controls.
Trustmi aims to stamp out B2B payment fraud with global launch
The launch comes just days after the company secured $17 million in a Series A funding round.
Principles, practices and persistence: the Consumer Duty deadline arrives
The regulation is set to completely transform the relationship between financial services firms and consumers.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 28 July 2023
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Germany’s N26 appoints new chief risk officer, Carina Kozole
Kozole, who will begin her new role later this year, has spent the last 17 years at UniCredit Group.
NatWest chief exec Alison Rose steps down with immediate effect
The group’s board of directors says Rose has “agreed by mutual consent to step down”.
